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Although the City Council has no responsibility for Fisheries, it is already implementing a council, headed by the mayor Obdulia Gomez, who will work with the Fishermen's Association of Cartagena to bring the voice of this sector to the Ministry of Agriculture, Water and Environment, a commitment which has realized the mayor, Jose Lopez, after the meeting held, together with the Deputy Mayor, Ana Belen Castejon, and Obdulia Gómez, with the pattern of the Brotherhood, Bartolomé Navarro.

After the meeting, Lopez announced that s and will ask the Autonomous Community that the measures taken from the Ministry in relation to fishermen, at least consult with industry, and that sometimes decisions are not taken rationale, as the biological rest out of time.

In addition, continued the mayor, we will also demand courses through the Agency of Local Development and Employment and grants to date, had not been requested.

So far in 2015, the fisheries sector is beginning to take off in Cartagena, off the bad streak lived between 2011 and 2013. We are seeing that the economy is improving in the city, people buy more fish and the price goes up, we noticed improvement, claimed Bartolomé Navarro.

Last year, the auction of Cartagena average turnover of EUR 4 million, and there are about 250 people employed.

Expectations for this year are better, according to the pattern Mayor, it is that in the first half kilos have increased almost 4 tons, and sales, 300,000 euros more.

Source: Ayuntamiento de Cartagena